Free Speech
Series 2
Episode 3: Are We Getting More Racist?
1 hour
With Free Speech's social media audience generating the show's biggest-ever online debates on race issues arising from the murder of Lee Rigby, Rick Edwards presents a special live edition of the debate show in front of an audience of 120 people aged 18-25.
Rick hears the opinions of the studio audience, with Tina Daheley (Radio 1 Newsbeat) relaying Twitter, Facebook and website messages from viewers at home.
Live from Sunderland, close to the scene of the English Defence League's first march since the death of Lee Rigby, a panel of politicians and local activists discuss racism and Islamophobia in Britain in the light of events in Woolwich. Show less